Latvia 1922 10 santimu

Stack's Bowers 2021 ANA sale, lot 41113

photo courtesy Stack's Bowers LLC

This specimen was lot 41113 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Costa Mesa, CA, August 2021), where it sold for $1,440. The catalog description^[1] noted, "LATVIA. 10 Santimu, 1922. Le Locle (Huguenin) Mint. PCGS SPECIMEN-66 Gold Shield. This EXCEPTIONALLY RARE striking as a specimen--the only of its kind seen at PCGS--offers seemingly endless brilliance and a hint of a cameo nature through its frosted devices." Latvia's independence was snuffed out by Russian (then Nazi) occupation in 1940. Independence was not reclaimed until 1991. This is a one year type but is not listed as expensive.

Recorded mintage: 15,000,000 but no proofs mentioned in the SCWC.

Specification: 3 g, nickel, 19 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-4.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The August 2021 ANA sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.

Link to:

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• 1922 20 santimu
• 1922 50 santimu
• 1923 santims
• 1923 5 santimi
• 1924 1 lats
• Coins and currency dated 1922